Midway Airport

Midway International Airport is located on 840 acres within the city of Chicago. As of March 2014, the airport had 246 daily direct flights to destinations in 64 cities within the United States, and 10 daily direct flights to eight international destinations. Southwest Airlines accounts for almost 90 percent of the airline market share at Midway. The original site was dedicated as Chicago Municipal Airport in 1927 by Chicago Mayor William Hale Thompson. By 1929, Municipal Airport was recognized as the busiest in the world, a title it held for at least 15 years. In December 1949, the airport was renamed Midway International Airport to commemorate the World War II Battle of Midway in the Pacific Ocean. Today, the airport is considered the 21st busiest in the United States, with more than 20 million annual passengers.

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There are sure to be stories across all media in the next few weeks recalling the end of World War II in 1945. On Aug. 6 that year the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, with another dropped on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, leading to Japan...

Chicago aviation authorities have failed to produce convincing evidence that keeping open all the diagonal runways at O'Hare International Airport would increase the risk of planes colliding, residents protesting the city's new noise-mitigation...

Although Chicago's big airport operates the most flights and generates the most jet noise, complaints are climbing to record levels about loud, low-flying planes in communities around Midway Airport, new data released Thursday show.
Midway noise...

Chicago-based United Continental Holdings, parent of United Airlines, on Thursday said it earned its highest quarterly profit ever, even as it dealt with pressure on revenue and flight tardiness.
U.S. airlines, including United, are enjoying a period...

About 100 United flight attendants marched outside Willis Tower on Thursday to demand a resolution to joint contract negotiations now three years in the works.
"Friendly isn't free," they chanted, taking a jab at the airline's iconic...

The entrance to the parking lot offering the lowest rates at O'Hare International Airport will close Wednesday to make room for construction of a rental car facility and public parking garage, city aviation officials said Monday.
Starting Wednesday,...

For the second time this week, a Southwest Airlines plane has aborted a takeoff at Midway International Airport.
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory said the crew reported an engine problem Friday and the FAA will...

Domestic airfares this autumn will fall to a four-year low, according to a fare-tracking website.
The average domestic fare from September through November will fall to $248, a 3.6 percent decrease from last fall and an 8.1 percent decrease from the fall...

About 143 passengers and five crew members were safely evacuated after a Southwest Airlines plane aborted its takeoff from Midway Airport when one of its engines caught fire Wednesday night, fire officials said.
Southwest Airlines 3299 was headed down...

A woman who has repeatedly tried to sneak aboard airplanes has been arrested in Chicago twice in as many days, the latest incident while trying to get through security without a ticket at O'Hare International Airport.
Chicago police said 63-year-old...

A woman dubbed a "serial stowaway" because of her record of trying to sneak aboard airplanes has been arrested at Midway Airport a day after she was released from jail, officials said.
Marilyn Hartman, 63, was released from Cook County Jail...

Chicago-based United on Tuesday announced it would invest $30 million in an alternative energy developer that turns household trash into jet fuel, and the Chicago region is among the likely sites for a refinery.The investment, which United says is the...

When a 90-year-old experiences something he describes as one of the high points of his life, that is really saying something.
But that is how Samuel Cascio of Oak Brook describes the Honor Flight he took from Chicago to Washington, D.C., June 3.
Cascio,...

Confusion over similar-sounding flight numbers is under investigation as the cause of a close call between two airliners taking off on intersecting runways at Midway Airport, an aviation source said Wednesday.A Southwest Airlines plane, Flight 3828, was...

A day after torrential downpours caused scattered flooding in and around Chicago, forecasts called for drier, cooler air in coming days — though it may rain on the Blackhawks' victory parade.
Cloudy, cooler but drier air was expected in the city...

The movie "Chiraq" can only further damage the image of Chicago, but Mayor Rahm Emanuel only has himself to blame because his administration has given huge tax breaks to attract movie companies to film here. Wouldn't a really caring mayor have...

Sixty-two of America's 100 busiest airports consider themselves "breast-feeding friendly," according to a 2014 study. The real number was six.
Researchers for the journal Breastfeeding Medicine surveyed airports about their accommodations for...

Chicago could make substantial progress toward alleviating jet noise in communities around O'Hare International Airport by not building more runways, spreading flights more evenly across existing runways and installing more aircraft gates to expedite...

The CTA and the city of Chicago are surveying thousands of passengers who use O'Hare International Airport to learn more about their trips, focusing on how people commute to and from the airport.
The $280,000 survey that runs through June asks how people...

The value of consumers being able to shop for airfares at comparison websites is $6.7 billion per year, which shows the danger of airlines potentially pulling their fares and schedules from those sites, according to a recent study sponsored by Travel...